Quick notes: Bagram airbase | Mineral treasure...

• Who Abandoned Bagram Air Base? Biden essentially blamed his generals. “They concluded—the military—that Bagram was not much value added, that it was much wiser to focus on Kabul. And so, I followed that recommendation.”
  
  Black Hawks and Humvees - Taliban's military gains



• Can China tap Afghanistan’s lithium treasure? An internal U.S Department of Defense memo in 2010 described Afghanistan as "the Saudi Arabia of lithium" .



• Delete Chrome: “Chrome is the only major browser that does not offer meaningful protection against cross-site tracking... and will continue to leave users unprotected.” Having promised to ditch tracking cookies, Google changed its mind. “If you use Chrome, you give up your privacy”.
  
  Google “has trackers installed on 75% of the top million websites,” several times as many as Facebook. Similarly, just look at the recent reports suggesting Google will pay Apple some $15 billion this year to be the default search engine on its devices.



• Light pollution from street lamps linked to insect loss: Artificial street lights disrupt the behaviour of nocturnal moths, reducing caterpillars numbers by half. Modern LED streetlights appeared to have the biggest impact.



• ब्रह्मज्ञानावलीमाला: Sung by Swami Brahmananda, Chinmaya Mission




• China blasts '996' excessive work culture: Jack Ma called 996 culture a "huge blessing." Chinese labor law already prohibits employees from working that long.
  
  Exhausted: Youth in China, Japan and South Korea are 'lying flat' because they're exhausted and without hope



• Sharia hasn't changed:

Tamal Bhattacharya returned from Afghanistan, and said Taliban in 90's and Taliban now are different. But Sharia law in 90's and Sharia law now are not different.

— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 24, 2021




• Pakistan’s hybrid war:

If you served in Afghanistan with ANDSF, OEF, ISAF or NATO’s training mission, you were fighting Pakistan’s hybrid war.

It’s not over.

— Chris Alexander (@calxandr) August 28, 2021




• India gets the refugees: While Pakistan gets celebrating Jihadis

#Pakistan in denial #Taliban gets warm welcome |

Watch | Pak-based militant organisations carrying Taliban flags take out victory rallies as they return home after Talibs take over Kabul |@AsYouNotWish @RomeshNadir @upma23 @centerofright pic.twitter.com/01b7KEcPug

— INDIA NARRATIVE (@india_narrative) August 24, 2021